In my case IIS 7.5 was hosting a faulty application (framework 4) that was causing it's application pool to crash. Developers were unable to find out what was causing the application pool to crash. Two error event messages were logged, one in application and one in system log.

In my case XP client with installed Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 client and SCCM 2007 client was notified that is not reporting to the configured FEP 2010 server. In the client's application event log there were error events with event id 11852 from smsclient source:

Failed to evaluate baseline content1. Error executing discovery transform. The SDM model may be bad. Exception :System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransformException: An error occurred during a call to extension function 'query'. See InnerException for a complete description of the error. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Management.MTAHelper' threw an exception. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80131701): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {A8F03BE3-EDB7-4972-821F-AF6F8EA34884} failed due to the following error: 80131701.
Also, in the client's system event log there were error events with event id 59,58 from SideBySide so…

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP DL 360 G4p is not supported, but Windows 2008 Server x64 is on the list of supported operating systems, so using the information in this post is at your own risk. If you try to install the OS using SmartStart, Windows Server 2008 R2 will not be on the list of operating systems that can be installed, but this does not prevent you to install Windows Server 2008 R2 from installation CD of this operating system and after successful OS installation to install latest PSP (Proliant Support Pack). But, if you try to install PSP there will be critical message: iLO Management Controller Driver is missing.

Installation for “HP Insight Management Agents for Windows Server 2003/2008 x64 Editions” requires one or more of the following that is not currently installed or in the install set:- HP ProLiant Advanced System Management Controller Driver for Windows
- HP ProLiant iLO Advanced and Enhanced System Management Controller Driver for Windows
- HP ProLiant…

In my case system was running on Windows Server 2003 R2 with latest patches installed. Network interfaces ware teamed with default settings using hp network utility. The machine was member of domain and following event was logged in application event log :

Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: UserenvEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 1053Date: 3/5/2012Time: 5:20:09 PMUser: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEMDescription:Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy processing aborted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Network interface settings for DNS were correct and servers reachable. Server was connected on two manageable cisco switches. After enabling portfast on both interfaces, problem was resolved and error event disappeared.

In my case I was unable to deploy operating system (Windows 7) using SCCM 2007 OSD on machine (A) and following error events were logged :

The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Apply Operating System) in the group (Install Operating System) with the error code 2148077575The task sequence execution engine failed execution of a task sequence. The operating system reported error 2148077575: The hash value is not correct. The task sequence manager could not successfully complete execution of the task sequence. A failure exit code of 16389 was returned. The operating system reported error 2148077575: The hash value is not correct.
After refreshing package's distribution point, operating system was still failing to install with same errors logged. Since there were no changes on SCCM, since last successful deployment of the same Windows 7 image, I tried to install the same image on other box. Windows 7 was successfully deployed using same task sequence on machin…